Quote by Thomas Sowell
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. – Thomas Sowell

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Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnsons administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamaras brilliant whiz kids tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. – Thomas Sowell

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War
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. – Thomas Sowell

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. – Theodore Roosevelt

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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it. – Zora Neale Hurston

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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. – John Steinbeck

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I dont know Who — or what — put the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. – Dag Hammarskjold

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